[Roger Haeske]

Great posts Steve. It's great to see your day to day feelings. This is certainly what happened to me in many of my Raw Food Diet trials. It's one of those obstacles.

And this is precisely why a 30 day trial is good. Because you commit yourself to 30 days and after that point you can reevaluate whether or not you want to continue.

The positive point being that usually after 30 days of being raw and doing it properly, your body will resist eating cooked food. So then you have your body helping you to stay raw.

As for missing amino acids and essential fatty acids from nownow's post. That's simply not true. Eating a low fat raw food diet with lots of fruits and vegetables provides an abundance of all of the essential amino acids and it provides enough omega 6 and 3 oils and in close to a 1 to 1 ratio.

Compare that with the dangerous 20 or 30 to 1 ratio most people on the Standard American Diet get. A 1 to 1 ratio is considered ideal and the low fat raw food diet provides that and enough of those amino acids as well.

So you actually get your needs met better than on any other diet. Not the other way around.

But you'd have to have studied quite a bit on nutrition to know this. You'd have to have broken down the nutrients in a full day of raw foods to realize that this is actually the case.

Also most people don't realize that most fruits contain all of the essential amino acids. And the big advantage in a Raw Food Diet is that these amino acids have not been denatured and damaged by the cooking process.

It's quite possible that a low fat and vegan raw foodist might be getting more usable protein than people on the Atkins diet.

Cheers, Roger